So I think my daughter has a new phobia, and granted, I don’t blame her much. We were at the store, going to pick up my prescription at the pharmacy. Emma sat in one of those car carts; the one that’s a cart, but there’s a car up front they can drive.
Anyway, I’m talking to the pharmacist and she just starts SCREAMING. I mean screaming, so the entire store is looking at her. She’s clutching her hands, and I think that maybe she hurt herself. I go to see what’s the matter, and she’s like incoherent, babbling. Finally she yells, “Spider!” and I look over, and there’s this bigger-than-a-quarter-sized spider hanging from the roof of the car an inch from her head. And the poor kids buckled in. So I grab her and pull her out, we abandon the car/cart and get the heck out of dodge. I could have just killed the spider, I suppose, but I hate killing bugs (I think it’s kind of mean) and I’m afraid of spiders, too. :)
So after that, we took off for Lacy Dane’s house for a sleepover, to let the kids and let the moms hang out. The kids got a long just fabulous as usual. I just love seeing Emma play with other children because she’s my only kid. No siblings. Well, she does have a half sister she adores, but we don’t see her as much as I’d like. And then this morning I went to my brother’s house for a mother’s day brunch. Now…I must buckle down and finish this futuristic shifter for Deanna. I promised it to her by the 20th. Or actually I told her to give me a day she’d like it by, so that’d I’d make sure I’d do it (that deadline thing I need!). Today I’m writing the lurrve scene. Good times.
Anyway. Happy….
I’d scream bloody-murder too if a spider was dangling that close to me. In fact, once one dropped down an inch from my face while I was driving and it suprised me to bad that I swerved into on-coming traffic! Thank God no one was in the lane. Note to self- don’t do that. Bad.
Happy Mother’s Day!
That spider thing is kind of funny - not because of her but just this morning I was following my hubby to the computer room and one dropped into my face! Both my hands were full - one with coffee and the other with bills and such that we were going to go work on. The coffee got spilled as I screamed bloody murder. My poor hubby… :) Its funny now but at the time… :)
Cole
Poor kid! Spiders are bad enough. But one that size is torture, especially since she was trapped like that. I have the same odd issue with killing them though. I hate to kill them, but I don’t really want to be NEAR them either!
Once my kid freaked cause he had a frog jumping up his arm. We were in a bakery and everyone was too freaked to get it off of him. So I had to do it.
Kids.
Poor Emma! I’d have no qualms squashing that bug, but I guess I’m mean as hell.
Have fun writing that sex scene! Heh heh heh…
Oh man, I can relate!!!!! The picture is sooooo cute.
Aw, poor thing.
Best of luck with the lurve scene!!
Poor Baby! I would scream too. Glad she got to have fun play time-and you did as well. Cant wait to see that futuristic shifter!
Hmmmmm. . .good luck with your love scene. I always have trouble writing them.
And yuck to the spiders! Your poor little one.
I was never so happy as when my son grew past his fear of spiders. Now I can call him to kill them, since I have no compunction whatsoever about issuing death warrants for creepy-crawlies. :D
Poor thing! I have no compunction for issuing creepy-crawly death warrants either, as long as I kill the bug without the killing mindset, lol. My kids and I had a big talk about this last week when I refused to slam on my breaks and cause a wreck to avoid hitting a squirrel. We talked about how sometimes killing things is unavoidable, but you should never enjoy killing a bug or squirrel, or there’s something amiss in your mind. We also say ‘thank you’ to the chickens and pigs who died for us to eat them before we eat supper, lol. Leftover weirdness form my hippy days I suppose!
Hugs, and happy belated mom’s day to you. I’m so jealous about the mommy/kiddy sleepover! I wish I had some mommy buddies here in Arkansas. I’d just made a few in California before we moved. It takes so long to make new girlfriends :(.
Anna
that would have damaged me for life!! poor thing! the worst spider story I have is from Texas. I was getting ready to move out of my apartment and I was taking boxes out of a closet I never used aside from storage.
I was sitting on the floor in a big huge mess of stuff and my cat was sitting there watching me. Suddenly I notice shes watching something. She wants to go after it but it hesitant. I was thinking it was a tree roach (these are HUGE and live in outside but get indoors sometimes).
I see movement out of the corner of my eye and lo and behold a wolf spider the size of my ENTIRE HAND.
ENTIRE HAND!!!!! I started screaming and wanted to run out - but then I thought, no, it will hide and Ill never sleep again til I find it and kill it.
I wanted to step on it, but I realized it would crunch in a major way - it was thick, like a rat or something.
So I dropped a medical textbook on it. And the book didnt go flat - and it moved a little! So I had to jump up and down on the book (screaming the whole time, my neighbors even came over!).
When the people next door saw it, the old woman almost passed out. It was terrible!
So my sympathies to your daughter!
Man those are great stories, although, Isabella, I think I’m gonna have nightmares! LOL. That’s freaky!!
Anna, I hear you on the meeting other mother’s with kids thing. That’s why I was jealous you and Gymboree. I have Lacy and her kids and that’s it! LOL. Emma has no friends.